Apple Releases visionOS 1.1.2 With Bug Fixes and Revised visionOS 1.2 Beta

Lol, people still use this thing?

Lol, people still use this thing?

I've got my theory (repeated on these forums a few times) about what happened...

Tim Cook/Phil Schiller/Apple's open hostility to developers finally came back to bite them.

Historically, people started out as Apple fans, then developed third party software for Apple's platforms, then they applied to Apple and were hired to be devs.

Then Apple decided to make the iOS App Store. They decided to bully good developers, holding them up over arbitrary rules while simultaneously letting a lot of spam and scams onto the store. They decided to charge a brutal protection fee, for which developers received no benefits.

When developers want to release awesome stuff for free, what'd Apple do? They had to charge for that, too, despite Apple already being a major beneficiary. Working for Apple for free simply wasn't (and isn't) good enough - Apple needs to charge for that privilege.

And thus the pipeline died. The App Store is a wasteland, nobody cares to write third party software for Apple's platforms, and nobody wants to work at Apple.

There's been some hints of this disaster for awhile. ie, how difficult Apple has found it to hire people who know about AI.